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TM 108583 / LDAB 108583 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/108583

Metadata

Date: second half 2nd century AD: AD 150 - 199

Provenance: Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa) - Egypt (19th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic / Old Coptic (paleography: clumsy capitals)

Demotic language in Old Coptic script

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 53

Content (beta!): literary text: magical manual for gaining favor and love

Culture & genre: religion — magical manual, formulary (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank

Note: new fragment in Oxford (J. Quack, Würzburg)

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11071 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM

Publications

Faraone / Torallas Tovar (ed.), Greek and Egyptian magical formularies 1 14 (Love, Edward O. D. - 2022) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

∙Sederholm, Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its cultural and religious setting (Probleme der Aegyptologie 24) (Sederholm, V. H. - 2006)

∙Osing, Der spätägyptische Papyrus BM 10808 (Osing, Jürgen - 1976)

∙Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 28 (1942), p. 20-31 (Crum, Walter Ewing - 1942) Please subscribe to follow this link

Photo: V.H. Sederholm, Papyrus British Museum 10808, p.142; Grossman, e.a. (ed.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica 17), 2017, p. 65; I. Regulski, Hieroglyphs. Unlocking Ancient Egypt (2022), p. 164 no. 134

Content studies: J.F. Quack in: E. Grossman e.a. (edd.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica 17), p. 64-65; J. Osing, OLA 242 (Fs. P. Vernus), p. 517-520)

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Collections

→ London, British Museum EA 10808
+→ Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms number unknown

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